Essex

DING 2014: ““Born at Hackney, Ms., he was raised at Porters Grange, Prittlewell, Es. He studied at Merchant Taylor’s School. He graduated from St. John’s, Oxford in 1839 and received his M.A. in 1842. He was curate at at Great Wakering, Es.; at Rochford, Es., for 12 years.; Hadleigh, Sf.; and at St. Mary’s, Prittlewell, Es. In 1869 he became Rector of Brighston, I.W. He was a theologian and a Tractarian novelist. He was a prolific writer of religious books as well as short tales and poems. Three poems in his The Fugitive (1870) are written in the dialect of Essex.”

Works

1870. The Fugitive and Other Poems. London: W. Skeffinton & Son. SC. EDD.

KingKong Project

Rev, William Edward HEYGATE (M: c1816 - 1902 Dec 12)

Probatio Clerica [n|1845] Friday Devotions [n|1846] The House Of Spirits [n|1846]

Godfrey Davenant [f|1847]

William Blake [1848]

Godfrey Davenant At College [f|1849]

The Wedding Gift [n|1850/69/1900]

Pierre Poussin [n|1851]

Ellen Meyrick [f|1851]

Care Of The Soul [e|1851]

The Manual [n|1853]

The Evening Of Life [n|1856]

Sir Henry Appleton [1857]

Ember Hours [1857]

The Scholar And The Trooper [1858]

Catholic Antidotes [n|1858]

The Doctrines Of Original Sin.. (w Nathan APPLETON) [n|       

        1859]

Alice Of Fobbing [1860]

Memoir Of The Rev J Aubone Cook, .. Vicar Of South

        Benfleet [b|1860]

Consider The Consequences [n|1867]

The Fugitive.. [p|1870]

Allegories And Tales [1873]

The Eucharist [n|1874]

Tales For A Bible Class Of Girls [s|1875]

Short Tales For The Lads Of A Bible Class Or Night School

        [s|1876]

Why I Am A Christian [n|1876]

Why I Am A Churchman [n|1877]

What Churchmen Should Do At This Time [n|1878]

A Visitation Manual [n|1880]

The Brothers.. [s|1880]

Sudden Death.. [s|1880]

Preparation Profit And Thankfulness [n|1887]

Old Richard.. [s|1888]

An Old Parson's Anecdotes And Tales [1892]

For further information about his life and works, see:

http://anglicanhistory.org/england/weheygate/

Skinner, S. A. 2004. “Heygate, William Edward (1816-1902), Church of England clergyman and writer”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/39534

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